They were stealing money. Why shouldn’t they be prosecuted?
Look up the “black sox” scandal.
A 14-inch Walleye don’t weigh 5 pounds.
“unlawfully owning wild animals”
That’s a new one...
I don’t have sympathy for these cheaters, though Carl Hiaasen described the fraud in the bass fishing competition in his novels.
But, what about indictments for Hunter, Brandon, Hillary, the corrupt FBI, BLM and all their enablers burning down cities and profiting off of wars and misery.
A tackle box with lead weights? Seems like a reach.
The should have just called the EPA on account of lead being in the water.
There's a word for that: געפֿילט
I think they ment “Erie”.
people have no honor or decency any more.
So they were arrested for attempted grand theft of prizes because they cheated? Can we at least revoke the Astros’ 2019 pennant?
As an avid angler I wholeheartedly approve of these indictments.
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They are White hill billies, fry them. At least the BLM arsonists walk free.
This is a miscarriage of justice!
Those fish probably ingested that lead while snacking on the enticements that previous anglers had dangled under their noses. The walleyes probably thought the weights were the hors d’oeuvre and the bait on the hook, the main course. Or vice-versa, they’d probably heard about all the stuff French people eat.
Maybe they came to prefer the lead to the bait, finding it would “stick to the ribs.” I mean look, fish aren’t exactly scholars and they call these particular ones ‘walleyes.’ There must be a reason.
Oh yeah, almost forgot— does the rule book explicitly bar the contestants from stuffing the fish? Maybe the suspects were just trying to keep their catch in the boat, lest they flop back into the water.
It’s all plausible— but the main issue: we have here a contest centered around the wholesale destruction of a particular species, a crucial link in nature’s circle of life. Aren’t there other fish in that dammed creek? Why were they excluded?
It seems wrong, so very very wrong.
Well. It’s a well known fact that all fishermen are liars, but must they be thieves as well?
greater repercussions for attempting to cheat at a fishing tournament than Biden will ever face for cheating in the 2020 election.
You can bet that anglers stuff baitfish down the gullet of their catch to Increase the weight too.
The authorities are fishing for a crime in this situation.
It was a $10,000 prize if I remember. Kinda makes it a big deal